AT&T, Verizon CEOs reject U.S. request for 5G deployment delay

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<br>WASHINGTON, Jan 2 (Reuters) – The chief executives of AT&T and Verizon Communications rejected a request by U.S.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to delay the planned Jan. 5 introduction of new 5G wireless service over aviation safety concerns.<br> <br>Buttigieg and Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson had asked AT&T CEO John Stankey and Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg for a commercial deployment delay of no more than two weeks.<br> <br>The wireless companies in a joint letter Sunday said they would not deploy 5G around airports for samsat keliling online six months but rejected any broader limitation on using C-Band spectrum.

They said the Transportation Department proposal would be “an irresponsible abdication of the operating control required to deploy world-class and globally competitive communications networks.”<br> <br>(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)<br>
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